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CHICAGO -- This town is peppered with concept restaurants developed by Richard Melman, the moving force behind Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, the food-service company that stands astride the city with such popular establishments as Shaw's Crab House, Ambria, and Corner Bakery.But for supermarket retailers who are struggling with food courts, cafeteria-style scatter formats and other meal marketing

CHICAGO -- This town is peppered with concept restaurants developed by Richard Melman, the moving force behind Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, the food-service company that stands astride the city with such popular establishments as Shaw's Crab House, Ambria, and Corner Bakery.

But for supermarket retailers who are struggling with food courts, cafeteria-style scatter formats and other meal marketing experiments, an hour or so spent in LEYE's Foodlife facility may reveal the most in